River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-10
WISCONSIN NEWS.

Influenza is quite prevalent at Stew
ems Point.
Around Sturgeon Bay the snow is
five feet deep.
A Mormon church is being built at
East Delavan.
Hard tines sociables are being
given by Racine churches.
The next encampment of Odd Eel
lows will be held at Waupaca.
February p, was the semicentennial
anniversary of the settlement of Elk
horn.
Rev. M. Mallory, a Racine Baptist
minister, while visiting in Lowell, Mass,
fell and broke one of his legs.
The Catholics of Buffalo, Marquette
county, are about to build church that
will cost ZOO.
William Peterson is under arrest at
Mansion for placing distractions on the
Necedah Branch Railroad.
The remains of Prof Albert Mark
ham, of Milwaukee, were taken to
Battle Creek, Mich, for burial.
Sulphur mined at Mineral Point
brings 81 ton, and is being shipped
by the carload to Tennessee.
The city of Menasha is anticipating
a boom. Several factories are ex-
pected to be started there soon.
Milwaukee, Lake Shore q Western
trainmen are investing all their spare
money in Gogebic mining.
Martin Craig, formerly well-known
resident of Mansion, has been elected
mayor of St. Lambert, Que.
Thomas Spirl, of the town of Nepeu-
skun, whose age was a few months
over 102 years. died last week.
Reports from the Chippewa are that
there has been another big snow there.
There was almost too much for logging
before.
The Appleton council has voted to
sell the Lake Shore stock held by the
city for not less than 20 cents on the
dollar,
1t is reported that the mill of Sherry,
Hill & Co., near Shawano, was crushed
in by the weight of snow. The mill
was new and cost $4,000.
The Rev. William Meikle, of Nova
Scotia, assistant secretary of the Inter
national Y M. c. A., is holding special
meetings at Beaver Dam.
An empty coffin was found in the
garnet of an old unoccupied building at
Stevens Point The building was for
merly occupied by German doctor.
There is said to be probability that
General Bragg, of Wisconsin, will be
appointed chief justice of the supreme
court of the District of Columbia.
A. +. Lynch, who is logging near
Pittsville, says the winter has been a
| splendid one for work. There has not
been a day when logging was not good.
William Rhodes, of Galesburg, while
practicing with revolver recently, shot
himself accidentally, the bali entering
his leg and SCATTERING the bone.
Mrs Sarah Tyrrell. tried ut Lancas-
ter for clubbing her husband to death,
was convicted of manslaughter in the
third degree
Mrs Katherine Felt, whose husband,
George Felt, died recently, has received
check for 1000. the amount of a
Knights of Pythias Insurance policy.
1t is feared that all the fish in Lake
Koshkonong were killed during winter,
because of the low water and cold
weather.
j. Mclaughlin. who lives in Wan
shara county. south of Mt. Morris, was
arrested Friday. for stealing a Shep-
herd dog of an Omro man named lay
Tor.
Sportsmen at Ahnappee have been Sc
curing large quantities of wild rice seed
to SOW in the spring in order to make
good feeding and shooting grounds for
wild duck next fall.
Leonard Cook, who escaped from the
Grant county jail Feb II, was captured
by the officers near Osterdock in Iowa.
and was tried at Lancaster for the
crime of assault with intent to kill.
One of Eau Claire's leading citizens
received instructions from a Boston
syndicate to invest in 10000 acres of
iron land not over forty miles from
Eau Claire.
There have been 1000 piles brought
in by the Wisconsin Central railroad
from the Superior Lumber COmpany's
camp for the Central's ore dock at Ash
land.
Patrick Burns. of the town of Eaton.
near Green Bay. died very suddenly.
He was 65 years old and leaves seven
teen children, six daughters and eleven
sons.
The Outagamie County Soldiers Mon
ument association is considering the
plan of erecting hall in Appleton in
stead Of simple monument as was al
first proposed.